TIP225: Billionaire Peter Thiel Lessons Learned (Business Podcast)

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Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On today's show, Preston and Stig cover questions and answers from Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: Why and how Peter Thiel is always inverting his thinking and why you should do the same. Why visionaries think in terms of a tipping point of employees rather than a tipping point for revenue. What Peter Thiel knows that no one agrees with him on. Why computers replacing people is an angst narrative that is not true. Ask The Investors: How much should value investors pay attention to the bond yield curve? BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Preston and Stig’s discussion of Peter Theil’s book, Zero to One Preston and Stig’s executive summary of Peter Theil’s book, Zero to One Reid Hoffman’s book, Blitzscaling – Read reviews of this book Ryan Holiday’s book, Conspiracy - Read reviews of this book NEW TO THE SHOW? 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0:00.0	You're listening to TIP.
0:02.6	On today's show, we cover a very famous Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Till.
0:07.1	For people that aren't familiar with Peter, he's a graduate of Stanford University and
0:11.0	after he graduated from college, he started off as a judicial clerk working as a securities
0:15.6	lawyer and he even did some derivatives trading at Credit Swiss before starting his own capital
0:20.4	management company.
0:22.0	But then in 1990, co-founded a little company called PayPal and he was the CEO until the
0:27.2	sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
0:31.9	After the sale of PayPal, Till started a big data analysis company called Palantir Technologies
0:37.2	and he also became the founder of a venture capital firm called Founders Fund.
0:42.0	With this firm, Till became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10%
0:46.9	stake for $500,000 in August of 2004.
0:51.0	Peter's personal net worth today is about $2.5 billion and he remains active in numerous
0:56.5	tech businesses.
0:58.0	So on today's show, we cover a few of the more interesting questions that Peter's responded
1:01.9	to lately and we're really looking forward to digging into some of his responses.
1:05.9	So without further delay, here's our episode covering Peter Till.
1:12.4	You are listening to THE Investors Podcast where we study the financial markets and read
1:17.4	the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.
1:20.6	We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected.
1:32.1	All right, welcome to the Investors Podcast.
1:34.1	I'm your host, Preston Pishin.
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